Selected publications

NEW - Moreno, K.; Wroe, S.; Clausen, P. D.; McHenry, C. R., D'Amore, D. C.; Rayfield, E. J.; Cunningham, E. 2008. Cranial performance in the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) as revealed by high-resolution 3-D finite element analysis. Journal of Anatomy, 212: 736-746. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00899.x

NEW - Bourke, J.; Wroe, S.; Moreno, K; McHenry, C. R.; Clausen, P. D. 2008. Effects of Gape and Tooth Position on Bite Force in the Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) using a 3-D Finite Element Approach. PLoS ONE, 3(5)e2200: 1-5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002200

NEW - Wroe, S.; Lowry, M. B.; Anton, M. 2008. How to build a mammalian superpredator. Zoology, 111:196-203. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2007.07.008

NEW - Wroe, S. 2008. High-resolution 3-D computer simulation of feeding behaviour in marsupial and placental lions. Journal of Zoology, 274: 332-339.doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00389.x

Wroe, S.; Huber, D.; Lowry, M.; Mchenry, C.; Moreno, K. ; Clausen, P. ; Ferrara, T.; Cunningham, E.; Dean, M.; Summers, A. In press. Three-dimensional computer analysis of white shark jaw mechanics: How hard can a great white bite?. Jornal of Zoology.

Field, J.; Fillios, M.; Wroe, S. In press. Contextualizing Chronologies for the Human Megafauna Overlap in Australia. Earth Science Reviews.

Wroe, S., and Field, J. 2007. Would the megafauna have gone extinct without climate change? Quaternary Science Reviews, 26: 565-567.doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.10.009

McHenry, C.; Wroe, S.; Clausen, P.; Moreno, K.; Cunningham, E.2007. Super-modeled sabercat, predatory behaviour in Smilodon fatalis revealed by high-resolution 3-D computer simulation. PNAS, 104:16010-16015.doi:10.1073/pnas.0706086104

Grellet-Tinner, G.; Wroe, S.; Thompson, M.B.; Ji, Q. 2007. A note on pterosaur behavior. Historical Biology 19:273-277. doi:10.1080/08912960701189800

Wroe, S.;Moreno, K.; Clausen, P.; McHenry, C.; Curnoe, D. 2007. High-resolution computer simulation of hominid cranial mechanics. The Anatomical Record, A290:1248-1255.doi:10.1002/ar.20594

Wroe, S.; Clausen, P.; McHenry, C.; Moreno, K.; Cunningham, E. 2007. Computer simulation of feeding behaviour in the thylacine and dingo: a novel test for convergence and niche overlap. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, 274:2819-2828.doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0906

Wroe, S.; Milne., N. 2007. Convergence and remarkably consistent constraint in the evolution of carnivore skull shape. Evolution, 61:1251-1260.doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00101.x

Christiansen, P.; Wroe, S. 2007. Bite forces and evolutionary adaptations to feeding ecology in carnivores. Ecology, 88: 347-358.doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2007)88[347:BFAEAT]2.0.CO;2

Moreno, K.; Carrano, M.T.; Snyder, R. 2007. Morphological changes in pedal phalanges through ornithopod dinosaur evolution: A biomechanical approach. Journal of Morphology, 268:50-63.doi:10.1002/jmor.10498

McHenry, C.; Clausen, P.; Daniel, W.T; Meers, M. B.; Pendharkar, A. 2006. Biomechanics of the rostrum in crocodilians: A comparative analysis using finite-element modeling. The Anatomical Record, 288A:827-849.doi:10.1002/ar.a.20360

Wroe, S., Field, J., and Grayson, D. K. 2006. Megafaunal extinction: climate, humans and assumptions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21: 61-62.

Wroe, S.; Field, J. 2006. A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative interpretation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25: 2692-2703.doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.10.008

McHenry, C.; Cook, A.; Wroe, S. 2005. Bottom feeding plesiosaurs. Science, 310: 75. doi:10.1126/science.1117241

Trueman, C. N., Field, J. H, Dortch, J., Charles, B., and Wroe, S. 2005. Prolonged co-existence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 182: 8381-8385.doi:10.1073/pnas.0408975102

Wroe, S.; McHenry, C.; Thomason, J. 2005. Bite club: Comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272: 619-625. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2986

Wroe, S.; Argot, C.; Crowther, M.; Dickman, C. 2004. On the rarity of big fierce carnivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B, 271: 1203-1211.doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2694

Wroe, S.; Crowther, M.; Dortch, J.; Chong, J. 2004. The size of the largest marsupial and why it matters. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) Series B (Suppl.), 271: S34-S36.doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0095

Wroe, S.; Field, J.; Fullagar, R.; Jermiin, L. 2004. Megafaunal extinction in the Late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis. Alcheringa, 28: 291-331

Johnson, C.; Wroe, S. 2003. Causes of extinctions of vertebrates during the Holocene of mainland Australia: arrival of the dingo or human impact? The Holocene, 13: 109-116

Wroe, S.; Myers, T.; Seebacher, F.; Kear, B.; Gillespie, A.; Crowther, M.; Salisbury, S. 2003. An alternative method for predicting body-mass: The case of the marsupial lion. Paleobiology, 29: 404-412.doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0403:AAMFPB>2.0.CO;2

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